Exactly. The legal fees and filing costs to assemble all the contractual relationships that are automatically created by marriage can cost thousands of dollars and days of time.
Many of the aforementioned rights are not state rights. And there are, in fact, rights not give by domestic partnership: they cannot file joint state tax returns, and their earnings are not classified as community property for state tax purposes. Additionally, when they travel out of state, their status within the State of California may have some effect on their rights. (This has not been tested by precedent, as far as I know.)
Read "The Institution of Marriage in Rabbinic Times," by Isaiah Gafni, in "The Jewish Family," edited by David Kraemer. As the early church became increasingly Roman and less and less Jewish, Paul was cited as part of argument against polygamy. However, polygamy remained a practice in parts of the early church for some time.
What's English for "poor reading comprehension"? More to the point, what does "foremost" mean?
The Leges Juliae was addressing sexuality in this case, as well, not strictly procreation. Look at the very quote you linked me to:
By the terms of the Lex Julia, senators and their descendants are forbidden to marry freedwomen, or women who have themselves followed the profession of the stage, or whose father or mother has done so; other freeborn persons are forbidden to marry a common prostitute, or a procuress, or a woman manumitted by a procurer or procuress, or a woman caught in adultery, or one condemned in a public lawsuit, or one who has followed the profession of the stage....
This looks like a restriction based on class and sexual purity (the Romans were neurotic about purity.)
Marriage is fine as a super-category for a range of contractual and legal commitments. My wife is from another country: if it weren't for the federal recognition of our marriage, living in the same country would be very difficult. (The problem of "love exiles" - same-sex couples who cannot live together because they are of different nationalities - is unfortunately a problem that even state-recognized gay marriages doesn't solve yet.)
What has struck me as ironic is Christians citing monogamous heterosexual marriage as something ordained by God, when the monogamous part of it was in fact pressed upon the Hebrews and other subjected people of the Roman Empire.
Marriage was first and foremost about kinship ties and property rights in most civilizations, not about procreation.
OpenOffice in lieu of MS Word? As soon as they open up a doc that someone else sends them, the formatting could get munged a little bit, and when they save it and send it back (I'm assuming you've switched OpenOffice to "save as Word doc" mode), more formatting can get changed or lost. It will, I assure you, end in tears.
I don't like MS Word. But it is, unfortunately, somewhat indispensable for many.
Look, there's a big gap between saying that media technologies change the structure of attention and saying that it's the end of human civilization. It isn't "blaming" technology, it's saying rather that technologies create an environment that can mask the existence of alternative: people don't even know that there are other ways of perceiving, thinking etc. Which means that something like a semester at sea is really an opportunity, not something to be wasted by keeping one's usual habits.
But those of us in the education industry can attest to the effect of the internet itself on the quality of student writing and research. It has improved it for a small minority, and worsened it for the majority, who now feel no obligation to ever step into a library.
Having seen it myself, and seen it change over the years, I'll actually go with net connectivity as being responsible for a diminishing ability to think reflectively and introspectively.
The experience of being offline is probably so rare and so novel for most people, I think it can lead to an ability to reflect and consider things at a pace of attention and thinking that is at risk of getting lost. I think there could be extraordinary benefits to studying at sea - the greatest of which is the cultivation of the ability to truly concentrate.
Bullshit. They only address a *specific* issue when it is discovered by the victims. If no one complains, they just keep on pumping out the poison.
If no one complains, then is there a poison?
Yes, they came clean because there was an outrage. Exactly like everywhere else (read: BSE in the USA.) Interestingly enough, the outrage about contaminated milk products was a domestic issue. China has been devoting a lot of its resources to improved product safety - both for political and economic reasons. There's nothing particularly altruistic or noble about that, but then neither is there elsewhere.
China has major human rights problems, but coerced labor in its manufacturing sector isn't one of them. They do seem to be responding well on environmental issues recently, and they took the consumer health / quality errors very seriously.
I see the trade imbalance driven by a deceptive ideology in the West that said that manufacturing was passe, that we could thrive with a "value-added" economy in which the West managed brands, did high-end conceptual work, produced "experiences", etc., while borrowing money to buy physical goods made elsewhere. Of course, it was nonsense, and the bill has come due. But this ideology was pushed hard by the people who benefited from it: the professional and managerial classes doing this supposedly "post-industrial" work, and the people who were funding them.
Hey. My first car was a Fiat. 850 Spider to be exact. Ran great... As long as I did something to it every week. Something. Never sure what, but something. Yep, ran great, as long as I fixed whatever was broken or breaking. Yep, every week. That car taught me how much I hate working under the hood. But when it was running and I put the top down, all was forgiven. As long as I fixed something every week. Yep, every week. Miserable car, sometimes I miss it (what is wrong with me).
That was exactly my experience running Debian Unstable in the late 1990s.
As someone who switched to Mac for my laptop, I have to say that people don't switch in baby steps like that - and that it would be frustrating for them if they did.
Most consumers don't collect computers, either. They will get a replacement system at least as powerful as their older system. Having a lightweight "entry level" Mac system isn't going to convert anyone.
Almost everyone I know who switched did it the way I did: on the laptop, not on the desktop, for a range of reasons, not the least of which is that the desktop is becoming the preserve of gamers.
There's a flip side to this: it goes both ways. As the material aspirations in the US start to dry up, now that this insane credit and housing bubble has popped and the manufacturing base is overseas, people will starting "clinging to God and guns" more in the US, whatever their religion is.
Perhaps we should retain our high-value educated workforce by preventing them from leaving the country, to make sure they carry out their patriotic duty! Maybe we could set up some sort of iron... curtain... or such, to make sure they stay.
Say what you will about jocks, but they probably have a better practical grasp on the behavior of bodies in real-world space, and the coordination to avoid tossing a Wiimote into a television set.
Sometimes, I agree with you. As someone with more money than time who still plays an occasional MMO, I certainly understand the attraction.
But different games allow different inequalities. If I play basketball, the fact that I am shorter than other players does not give me the right to buy a few three-pointers before the game. The reason for opposing real-money transactions in MMO is the belief, held either by the developers or the players or both, that "spare time" is an acceptable inequality in the way that "height" is in basketball, while "discretionary cash" is not.
I go both ways on this topic, though. I find it fascinating, in any case.
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Exactly. The legal fees and filing costs to assemble all the contractual relationships that are automatically created by marriage can cost thousands of dollars and days of time.
Many of the aforementioned rights are not state rights. And there are, in fact, rights not give by domestic partnership: they cannot file joint state tax returns, and their earnings are not classified as community property for state tax purposes. Additionally, when they travel out of state, their status within the State of California may have some effect on their rights. (This has not been tested by precedent, as far as I know.)
Read "The Institution of Marriage in Rabbinic Times," by Isaiah Gafni, in "The Jewish Family," edited by David Kraemer. As the early church became increasingly Roman and less and less Jewish, Paul was cited as part of argument against polygamy. However, polygamy remained a practice in parts of the early church for some time.
What's English for "poor reading comprehension"? More to the point, what does "foremost" mean?
The Leges Juliae was addressing sexuality in this case, as well, not strictly procreation. Look at the very quote you linked me to:
This looks like a restriction based on class and sexual purity (the Romans were neurotic about purity.)
Marriage is fine as a super-category for a range of contractual and legal commitments. My wife is from another country: if it weren't for the federal recognition of our marriage, living in the same country would be very difficult. (The problem of "love exiles" - same-sex couples who cannot live together because they are of different nationalities - is unfortunately a problem that even state-recognized gay marriages doesn't solve yet.)
If you are going to be working in senior management or close to it, the "another Google location" thing doesn't necessarily work.
What has struck me as ironic is Christians citing monogamous heterosexual marriage as something ordained by God, when the monogamous part of it was in fact pressed upon the Hebrews and other subjected people of the Roman Empire.
Marriage was first and foremost about kinship ties and property rights in most civilizations, not about procreation.
With Firefox and Thunderbird, no problems.
OpenOffice in lieu of MS Word? As soon as they open up a doc that someone else sends them, the formatting could get munged a little bit, and when they save it and send it back (I'm assuming you've switched OpenOffice to "save as Word doc" mode), more formatting can get changed or lost. It will, I assure you, end in tears.
I don't like MS Word. But it is, unfortunately, somewhat indispensable for many.
Look, there's a big gap between saying that media technologies change the structure of attention and saying that it's the end of human civilization. It isn't "blaming" technology, it's saying rather that technologies create an environment that can mask the existence of alternative: people don't even know that there are other ways of perceiving, thinking etc. Which means that something like a semester at sea is really an opportunity, not something to be wasted by keeping one's usual habits.
But those of us in the education industry can attest to the effect of the internet itself on the quality of student writing and research. It has improved it for a small minority, and worsened it for the majority, who now feel no obligation to ever step into a library.
Having seen it myself, and seen it change over the years, I'll actually go with net connectivity as being responsible for a diminishing ability to think reflectively and introspectively.
The experience of being offline is probably so rare and so novel for most people, I think it can lead to an ability to reflect and consider things at a pace of attention and thinking that is at risk of getting lost. I think there could be extraordinary benefits to studying at sea - the greatest of which is the cultivation of the ability to truly concentrate.
Because ... they don't particularly value democracy?
And, when I see the results of democracy, there are times in which I don't blame them.
Bullshit. They only address a *specific* issue when it is discovered by the victims. If no one complains, they just keep on pumping out the poison.
If no one complains, then is there a poison?
Yes, they came clean because there was an outrage. Exactly like everywhere else (read: BSE in the USA.) Interestingly enough, the outrage about contaminated milk products was a domestic issue. China has been devoting a lot of its resources to improved product safety - both for political and economic reasons. There's nothing particularly altruistic or noble about that, but then neither is there elsewhere.
"Near slave labor?"
China has major human rights problems, but coerced labor in its manufacturing sector isn't one of them. They do seem to be responding well on environmental issues recently, and they took the consumer health / quality errors very seriously.
I see the trade imbalance driven by a deceptive ideology in the West that said that manufacturing was passe, that we could thrive with a "value-added" economy in which the West managed brands, did high-end conceptual work, produced "experiences", etc., while borrowing money to buy physical goods made elsewhere. Of course, it was nonsense, and the bill has come due. But this ideology was pushed hard by the people who benefited from it: the professional and managerial classes doing this supposedly "post-industrial" work, and the people who were funding them.
Hey.
My first car was a Fiat. 850 Spider to be exact.
Ran great... As long as I did something to it every week. Something. Never sure what, but something. Yep, ran great, as long as I fixed whatever was broken or breaking. Yep, every week. That car taught me how much I hate working under the hood. But when it was running and I put the top down, all was forgiven. As long as I fixed something every week. Yep, every week. Miserable car, sometimes I miss it (what is wrong with me).
That was exactly my experience running Debian Unstable in the late 1990s.
As someone who switched to Mac for my laptop, I have to say that people don't switch in baby steps like that - and that it would be frustrating for them if they did.
Most consumers don't collect computers, either. They will get a replacement system at least as powerful as their older system. Having a lightweight "entry level" Mac system isn't going to convert anyone.
Almost everyone I know who switched did it the way I did: on the laptop, not on the desktop, for a range of reasons, not the least of which is that the desktop is becoming the preserve of gamers.
I never found Bozo the Clown particularly funny. Of course, the fact that Carl Sagan, who originated that quote, laughed is fairly easy to explain.
And any discussion of Kevin Costner's box-office performance over the last couple of decades will put you on the no-fly list for life.
There's a flip side to this: it goes both ways. As the material aspirations in the US start to dry up, now that this insane credit and housing bubble has popped and the manufacturing base is overseas, people will starting "clinging to God and guns" more in the US, whatever their religion is.
Perhaps we should retain our high-value educated workforce by preventing them from leaving the country, to make sure they carry out their patriotic duty! Maybe we could set up some sort of iron... curtain... or such, to make sure they stay.
"Can Grandma use it" is an excellent nerd question, if it is in the context of "how can *we* design it so Grandma can use it."
In what language is "hypebole" a word. And in what language is using fake code-like prose a hyperbole?
Say what you will about jocks, but they probably have a better practical grasp on the behavior of bodies in real-world space, and the coordination to avoid tossing a Wiimote into a television set.
Not all people have equal amounts of leisure time. The illusion is thus broken before money is introduced.
Sometimes, I agree with you. As someone with more money than time who still plays an occasional MMO, I certainly understand the attraction.
But different games allow different inequalities. If I play basketball, the fact that I am shorter than other players does not give me the right to buy a few three-pointers before the game. The reason for opposing real-money transactions in MMO is the belief, held either by the developers or the players or both, that "spare time" is an acceptable inequality in the way that "height" is in basketball, while "discretionary cash" is not.
I go both ways on this topic, though. I find it fascinating, in any case.